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Ever wonder how many other patients your local GP now cares for? Recent figures show that could be up to as many as 3,000 other people. Amid worsening staff shortages, the number of fully qualified GPs has fallen from 29,320 in 2016 to 27,372 last year, as more and more doctors are opting to reduce...

Bishops propose prayers of God’s blessing for same-sex couples C of E’s links to historic transatlantic slavery on display at Lambeth Palace Transform Care through a National Care Covenant, says Archbishops’ Commission Church Website Provider has saved the UK Church £2.15million Traidcraft goes into administration Millions of children starving worldwide ** Editor:   Please encourage your...

Heavenly Father, We look on with desperation at the events unfolding in Turkey and Syria and turn our faces towards you, our sovereign Lord. Your profound and powerful love brings hope, even in the midst of the most devastating circumstances. While we feel distant and helpless, we know that you are present and able to...

Devastating earthquakes have recently killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria. Hundreds of buildings have been destroyed. Survivors are facing freezing conditions and need urgent aid. As we go to press, more than 24,000 people have been killed, and 17 million have been affected. They urgently need shelter, food and medical aid, or they...

The Church of England’s General Synod has welcomed proposals which would enable same-sex couples to come to church after a civil marriage or civil partnership to give thanks, dedicate their relationship to God and receive God’s blessing. Synod members also voted to “lament and repent” of the failure of the Church to welcome LGBTQI+ people...

Sundays of the Month Editor:  We thought you might find it helpful to know what the Sundays of each month are called… March 5th        Second Sunday of Lent March 12th      Third Sunday of Lent March 19th      Mothering Sunday – Fourth Sunday of Lent March 26th      Fifth Sunday of Lent   High Days &...

guiding the Welsh through turbulent times On 1st March Wales celebrates its patron saint, David – or, in Welsh, Dewi or Dafydd. He is revered wherever Welsh people have settled. As with most figures from the so-called ’Dark Ages’ (he lived in the sixth century), reliable details about his life are scarce, but there are...

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time for daffodils 1st March is St David’s Day, and it’s time for the Welsh to wear daffodils or leeks. Shakespeare called this custom ‘an honourable tradition begun upon an honourable request’ – but nobody knows the reason. Why should anyone have ever ‘requested’ that the Welsh wear leeks or daffodils to honour their patron...

the recycled bishop Chad should be the patron saint of any modern bishop whose consecration is questioned by another bishop. Chad was consecrated a bishop, then deposed – and then re-consecrated! It all began about the middle of the 7th century, when Oswiu, King of Northumbria, made Chad the bishop of the Northumbrian see. But...

godly king of Poland Casimir is a good patron saint for anyone whose father drives them crazy. For Casimir did not let an unhappy background stop him from becoming the person he wanted to be. Yet Casimir’s father, the King of Poland back in 1458, was no picnic as a dad. For if you think...

friend of St Jerome       Eusebius is the saint for you if you believe in the Bible, and also in providing hospitality. He was born of a good family in Cremona, Italy, in the fourth century, and felt called to become a monk. As Eusebius was ascetic by nature, he sought out St Jerome in Rome,...